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Sixty years ago, it was enough that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay stood on
the summit of the world’s highest mountain — the apex of the greatest
British mountaineering expedition in history. On Sunday, Kenton
Cool did that before breakfast. Then, yesterday morning the Briton also
climbed Lhotse, the world’s fourth-highest mountain.

All this came after one of the most testing warm-up days ever. On Saturday, he
and his partner, Dorje Gylgen, reached the summit of Nuptse — at 7,861m,
(25,790ft). Yesterday afternoon, a tweet from Mr Cool announced: “KC Update:
Lhotse has been summited. Descent hard. At C2 for night. 3